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Lucknow: Uttar Pradeshs Anti-Terrorist Squad said Thursday that it had arrested three people including two Pakistani citizens for trying to enter India through Nepal..
The ATS has identified the suspects as Mohammed Altaf Bhat from Pakistans Rawalpindi, Sayyed Gajanafar from Islamabad, and Nasir Ali from Kashmirs Kralpora Hawal..
According to a statement by the agency, Bhat, originally from Kashmir who had crossed over into Pakistan after the Kargil War of 1999, had received training from Hizbul with assistance from Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence and had been directed by ISI operatives to enter India via Nepal...
Bhat, meanwhile, said he was influenced by reading Hizbul literature and by listening to the speeches of amirs and ustads of other jihadi organisations, the statement said.. Altaf got directions from the HM operatives to enter Jammu and Kashmir in India via Nepal and was told that he would be informed about the next plan there, it said, adding that on the directions of his ISI handlers, Altaf met Nasir, who was in touch with an ISI agent named Saleem via WhatsApp, in Kathmandu...
The three have been booked under Indian Penal Codes (IPC) sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc), 468 (forgery of electronic record for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 121A (conspiracy to commit war against Government of India), and provisions of the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 and The Foreigners Act, 1946...
